Microsoft Surface Pro 5 may get delayed; But is it worth the wait?

According to rumours, Microsoft has put off the Surface 5's launch to 2017.

June 17, 2016 18:05 IST

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The world has been awaiting for the launch of the Surface Pro 5 all year and now it seems the wait is going to be a little longer. If we are to believe the rumours, the 2-in-1 detachable device would not be rolling out until 2017, leaving Microsoft Surface Pro 4 as the go-to flagship device.

According to a report by ZDNet, "Redstone 2" will bring a bunch of Windows 10 devices to the market and it is believed that the Surface Pro 5 will be one of them.

This could mean that the device could be rolled out almost a year from now and has definitely thrown a spanner in the works for users looking to upgrade to the Surface Pro 5. For existing Surface Pro 4 users, this may come as terrible news, but for users moving up from the Surface Pro 3 or migrating to the Surface Pro platform, this is as good a time as ever to consider the Surface Pro 4.

While the Surface Pro 5 is rumoured to be powered by a 7th generation Intel Kaby Lake processor, the Surface Pro 4 can be picked up with a power-efficient 6th Gen Intel Core m3 processor or the performance-oriented i5 and i7 processors. These processors are from the Skylake family of processors.

However, if rumours are to be believed, the Surface Pro 5 will feature a processor clocked up to 4GHz. Not only would it make the Surface Pro 5 the most powerful tablet in the market, it would also mean that the Surface Pro 5 would blow the Surface Pro 4 with the i7 processor completely out of the water as the latter has a clock speed of 2.2 GHz that can be raised to 3.4 GHz.

The Surface Pro 4 is currently priced between Rs. 78,890 and Rs. 1,44,990.